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The 16-year-old Iniyan Panneerselvam, from Erode city in Erode district of Tamil Nadu, has been conferred with the title of ‘Grandmaster’ on March 6. The teen has been playing chess since the age of 5…

Two Indian siblings Rajveer and Anaishaa shone in an impressive way at the 35th Singapore National Open Age Group Chess Championship bring gold and silver in India. The tournament, organized by the Singapore Chess Federation,…

A Japanese-American chess grandmaster and world No.2 Hikaru Nakamura of the United States on Sunday won the Tata Steel Chess India 2018 rapid tournament in Kolkata with six points as reigning World Champion Viswanathan Anand…

The former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Arkady Dvorkovich, was on Wednesday crowned as the new King of FIDE or World Chess Federation.The 46-year-old Dvorkovich was elected as the new president with a clear-cut majority…

Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand and Sergey Karjakin of Russia would be on spot light on the resumption of the World Chess Candidates tournament on 23 March 2016 in Moscow. After rest for a day,…

Grandmasters Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Krishnan Sasikiran showed the way as India beat formidable Russia in the tenth and final round of the World team chess championship that concluded on Tuesday. The result, apart from…

Calcutta: Grandmaster Surya Sekhar Ganguly is confident of retaining the individual title of the World Team Chess Championship, which begins at Ningbo, in China, from July 15. “After coming back from Asian Individual Championship in…

NEW DELHI: National champion Parimarjan Negi will face world junior number one, Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana of Italy while India's number two K Sasikiran will lock horns with Philippines' GM Wesely So in the first round…